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APPLICATION P'ILED JAN. 12, 1900;

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

CHESTER MCNEIL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A'SSIGNOR TO THE UNION SPE- CIAL SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORA- TION O F ILLINOIS.

SEAM FOR SEWED ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,654, dated. January 20, 1903- Application filed January 12, 1900. Serial No. 1,177. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHESTER MONEIL, a citizen of the-United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Seams for Sewed Articles, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and figures of reference marked IO thereon.

My invention relates to an improvement in seams for sewed articles; and the object is to provide a combination of ruffled fabric and stitches when the stitches which secure the I5 folds of the fabric are not visible, but only pass through the base of the ruffles, after which the ruffled piece may be secured to another fabric, 'or the same stitches which set the ruffles may be used to unite the ruffled piece to the goods forming the body.

Heretofore in the operation of sewing and ruffling the ruffler-blade gathers the goods and a row or rows of stitches are passed entirely through the ruffles, thus showing on both sides. The idea of the present invention is to avoid entirely the appearance of threads upon the upper surface of the fabric and simply to sew through the rufies at the base, thereby enabling the ruffles to stand out straight and not be sewed down flat, as is customary.

The invention therefore consists of a fabric having a series of ruffles or gathers, means for securing the bases of said ruffles or gathers comprising locking threads passing through said bases and properly secured,leaving the tops of the ruffles free and open, with no stitches passing over said tops.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front perspective view of a ruffled fabric made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear perspective view showing the combination of rufiied fabric, stitches, and backing fabric; and Fig. 4: is an enlarged perspective View illustrating the ruffled fabric and the stitches securing the same.

In the drawings, A represents a piece of fabric provided with ruffles or gathers, and,

as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, these ruffles or gathers are secured in place by means of stitches in which the needle-threads 1 pass substantially horizontally through the base 55. of the ruffie, into and out of the same, and are secured by looper-threads 2. Thus the ruffies are not sewed through and through down to the body of the fabric, as is usually the case; but the stitches pass only through the base of the ruffles, and thus the latter may stand out from the body of the fabric, no stitches showing on the upper surface of the fabric.

In Fig. 3 the ruffled fabric A is shown as secured to a second piece of fabric B, which may be the body of a skirt or other garment, and in this arrangement the threads 1 pass into the fabric B, through the base of a ruffle a, and thence out again through the fabric B, there being secured by the threads 2, as shown.

The operation of sewing and ruffling to make this seam is preferably performed upon a sewing-machine having a mechanism for 75 ruffiing the piece of goods A and feeding it to a stitch-forming mechanism, which deposits stitches therein in the manner indicated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric having a series of ruffles or gathers, and means for securing the bases of said ruffles or gathers, comprising locking threads passing through the bases of said ruffles or gathers, and between consecutive bases passing beneath the opposite faces or tops of said ruffies or gathers, whereby said tops are left free and open and the stitches are concealed; substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric having a series of ruffles or gathers, a body fabric, and means for securing the ruflied fabric to the body fabric, said means com- 5 prising locking-threads passing through the bases of said ruffles or gathers and through the body fabric, and between consecutive bases passing beneath the oppositefaces or tops of said ruffles or gathers, whereby said I00 tops are left free and open, and the stitches are concealed; substantially as described.

3. As a newarticle of manufacture, afabric having a series of ruffles 0r gathers, combined with threads passing through the bases of said ruffles or gathers, and entering and emerging upon the same face of the fabric, with means for securing said threads upon the same face on which they enter and emerge, whereby the tops of said ruffles or gathers are left free and open; substantially as described.

4. Asanew article of manufacture, a fabric having a series of rufiies or gathers, a second CHESTER MONEIL.

Witnesses:

W. S. NORTH, ANNA S. KATZ. 

